Reception Round Up
In Literacy, Stickman has been our focus text. We have created story maps of his adventures and identified rhyming words. We’ve talked about where we would like to go on an imaginary adventure.
We have been exploring time in Maths. We’ve been linking regular routines to times of the day, played with clock faces and used them to read and show o’clock times.
Our work in Literacy will continue around the Christmas theme. We will be exploring rhyme further in The Reindeer Hokey Cokey, and listening to a variety of Christmas stories. We will be writing letters to Santa and using adjectives to describe decorations.
In phonics we have...
Introduced digraphs;
oa oo ar or ur ow oi
- Reinforce digraphs/trigraphs introduced at school. Identify them in words in stories you share
- Practise simple addition in real life contexts e.g. how many red and blue baubles on the tree?
- Talk about the numbers on advent calendars – explore the value of tens and ones in two-digit numbers
- Encourage children to write Christmas cards and gift tags using the cursive letters they know
The children are very excited about our performance of The Twinkly Nativity on Wednesday morning. Please remember the children need to wear a vest under their costumes. The rest of the school are watching the dress rehearsal on Monday.
We will be having a class Christmas party on the final day of term, also Christmas jumper day. Further details about this will be sent home next week.